NOMAD returns to St. Moritz

At a time when collectible design and artisanal craftsmanship have returned to the center of the debate - with a focus on material research, unique pieces, and a renewed attention to the long timeframe of design processes - NOMAD Circle returns to St. Moritz from 12 to 15 February 2026 for its ninth Swiss edition. The venue selected is Villa Beaulieu, the former Klinik Gut, recently renovated and transformed into a temporary exhibition residence: more home than white cube, more experience than stand. An environment that invites visitors to observe the works in relation to space, light, and architecture, restoring an almost domestic dimension to contemporary collecting. The program brings together a wide selection of international galleries - including Nilufar, Pierre Marie Giraud, von Bartha, Monica De Cardenas, Robilant+Voena, Secci, Cortesi Gallery, Brun Fine Art, and Spazio Nobile - alongside galleries from Warsaw, Athens, London, San Sebastián, and Cairo. The exhibition path alternates between historical and contemporary works, collectible design, jewelry, and site-specific projects, mapping out a deliberately heterogeneous yet coherent panorama in line with the spirit of NOMAD. 
 

Alongside the galleries, a central role is given to the Special Projects, which expand the narrative beyond the traditional exhibition format, including collaborations with the worlds of fashion, craftsmanship, and contemporary jewelry, such as the Giorgio Armani project in dialogue with Armani/Casa. The encounter with the works takes place on a more intimate scale, encouraging a slower gaze and a less spectacular form of engagement, closer to the idea of inhabiting than to that of exhibition. Within this framework sits Yellow Apartment, one of the most interesting highlights of the program, which brings the exhibition experience into a real domestic space. 


© Ivan Erofeev

Accessible by appointment only, the project opens to the public an apartment designed in the early 1970s by Ico and Luisa Parisi, preserved intact for over fifty years and today a rare example of living as a total work of art, in which architecture, furnishings, light, and color create a unified narrative that remains surprisingly relevant. In this context, the works of Rachele Bianchi and Riccardo Schweizer do not assert themselves as objects to be contemplated, but rather enter the rooms as domestic presences, shaping a narrative environment where art and everyday life naturally overlap. The project also includes two works from the PostForma Ico series by Martino Gamper, presented in collaboration with Nilufar: a reinterpretation of Parisi’s historic furniture through processes of deconstruction and recomposition that preserve their function and proportions, activating a direct and circular dialogue between archival design and contemporary vision. 


Ph. by Filippo Pincolini

At the same time, at Villa Beaulieu, Nilufar returns to NOMAD under the curatorship of its founder Nina Yashar with an immersive presentation that brings contemporary design into dialogue with timeless vintage icons, presenting alongside PostForma (2025) also Famiglia (2025) by Maximilian Marchesani, the creations of Etienne Marc, and the Muse collection by Filippo Carandini, in dialogue with a selection of historical pieces - including works by Gabriella Crespi - highlighting the gallery’s attention to material intelligence and the lasting quality of craftsmanship. Co-founded and directed by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, NOMAD thus continues to move across different geographies while maintaining a deliberately intimate and strongly site-specific format. In an art and design system increasingly oriented toward scale and spectacle, it instead chooses density, relationship, and the time of encounter. Amid snow, Alpine architecture, and 1970s modernist interiors, the 2026 edition in St. Moritz confirms this vision: another way of experiencing art and design - and a yellow apartment worth the journey.